We once knew a married couple whose license plate was their combined name. At one point, the wife wanted to get rid of the vanity plate for “no reason.” Ten months later, this couple divorced.

And so it was with BusinesssWeek. The business magazine that best known to us as neither Forbes nor Fortune has made a human resource switch-up, wherein 20 people will be reassigned as contract workers with Kelly Services, instead of getting their pay check from McGraw-Hill. Even though nothing has changed, effectively these people have full time positions at BusinessWeek through a temp agency.

And much like dumping a guy is easier without a shared vanity license plate, so is firing people who are under contract with temp firm. Just saying, it doesn’t look good.